@ Charlie Bass

[truthcentric]

I recall you once dug up a study by Joel D. Irish which found North African-type teeth on Nubian skulls with sub-Saharan affinity, but I can't find the Egyptsearch thread for it. Do you still have a link to it?

[olehint]

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[truthcentric]

^ Sorry, not very helpful.

[Charlie Bass]

It the Jebel Moya redux study by Joel Irish, I think I have the full study hidden somewhere in my emails. But to Joel Irish, his "North African" samples are Horners .

[zarahan]

^^Some of his dental studies suffer from skewed sampling.



On the key ancient Badarian group though that Keita shows cluster with tropical Africans, he does say they are a good representative of what ancient Egyptians would be:

quotes:

"Despite the difference, Gebel Ramlah [the Western Desert- Saharan region] is closest to predynastic and early dynastic samples from Abydos, Hierakonpolis, and Badari.."

the Badarians were a "good representative of what the common ancestor to all later predynastic and dynastic Egyptian peoples would be like"

"A comparison of Badari to the Naqada and Hierakonpolis samples .. contradicts the idea of a foreign origin for the Naqada (Petrie, 1939; Baumgartel, 1970)"

Evidence in favor of continuity is also demonstrated by comparison of individual samples. "Naqada and especially Hierakonpolis share close affinities with First–Second Dynasty Abydos.. These findings do not support the concept of a foreign dynastic ‘‘race’’"

"Thus, despite increasing foreign influence after the Second Intermediate Period, not only did Egyptian culture remain intact (Lloyd, 2000a), but the people themselves, as represented by the dental samples, appear biologically constant as well."

(Joel D. Irish (2006). Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2006 Apr;129(4):529-43.)